a strange melange
Science will not save us. Not even systems science. What systems science above all reveals about ourselves and the world is that both self and world are wholly unsavable, precisely […]
Tag Archives: methods
Experimental Procedures for New Ontologies
From Tom Kayzel & Sigmund Bruno Schilpzand. Review essay of: Bruno Latour (ed.), Reset Modernity (2016). Cambridge: MIT Press, 560 pp. In 2013, French philosopher Bruno Latour baffled his growing audience with the […]
chronotopes of truth: presence, evidence, latency
In this wide-ranging talk (given on April 8, 2014, as part of the Spring 2014 Shulman Lecture Series in Science and the Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center) Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht […]
Climate Change as Ecological Colonialism
Abstract: Climate change is a consequence of a clash between deregulated capitalism and the welfare of mankind deeply entrenched in a capitalist economic system based upon the persistent exploitation of […]
The Emergent Patterns of Climate Change
You can’t understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It’s the whole, or it’s nothing. In this talk, Schmidt explains how he studies the big picture of […]
Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity
Below are some thoughts I had while reflecting on a new paper from Katrina Kolozova available here. This passage in particular set off an avalanche of pondering: In order to circumvent the […]
Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance (Paul Rabinow)
here be a classic pdf up for grabs: Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance, Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director […]
toward an encourageMental-manipulation
Dogen Zenji Dogen relates the words of an old Zen master: “Formerly I used to hit sleeping monks so hard that my fist just about broke. Now I am old […]
Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider
“A presentation by authors Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and Nathan Schneider Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”
Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences’
This podcast features Dr Des Fitzgerald and Dr Felicity Callard on ‘Experimental Entanglements: Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences’. It was recorded at a Hearing the Voice […]
Rosenthal on Ontology, Pluralism and Pragmatism
Rosenthal, Sandra B. (2005) ‘The Ontological Grounding of Diversity: A Pragmatic Overview’ in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: The uprootedness of experience from its ontological embeddedness in a natural world […]
Latour’s ‘What Is the Recommended Dose of Ontological Pluralism for a Safe Anthropological Diplomacy?’
In light of the recent ‘realism v. pluralism’ debates… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U1FbAMEpzQ http://anthem-group.net/2014/01/28/2013-gad-distinguished-lecture-bruno-latour/
On Crisis (emergency and new heroism), Jan Verwoert
Emergency? Of what kind, where, affecting who? In most recent global history, a number of monumental incidents of a political nature, many of which fall under a larger concept of […]
Heidegger and the Ecology of Knowing
Levi Bryant has a interesting post up on Heidegger (here), wherein he moves from a damn fine summary of ‘equipmentality’ to a discussion of cognitive blindness (although without reference to […]
Craftsmanship: Connecting the Physical and the Social
Professor Richard Sennett gave the following talk for Keble College on June 7, 2013: AUDIO: Craftsmanship: Connecting the Physical and the Social Richard Sennett (b.1943) is the Centennial Professor of […]
Anthony Stavrianakis on Collaboration and Ontology
The following is a conversation between Gaymon Bennett and anthropologist Anthony Stavrianakis about the Challenge of Collaboration. The conversation took place in a noisy kitchen at Berkeley University Campus. Since […]
Interview with Paul Rabinow
“I have said in some of the earlier books that anthropology to me is anthropos + logos or logoi, so if you are interested in anthropos which in Greek is […]
Their good life: Should the state legislate for individual happiness?
‘Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinion about events.’ – Epictetus Some governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Jules Evans asks, ‘Is there a […]
Aristotelian Science versus Pythagorean Science
Originally posted on Researchers Gone Wild:
In this post I will be exploring and elucidating the claim that in the 16th Century the underpinning philosophy of science turned from being…
